• Craft and Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Amelia Earhart, Vivek Shanbhag and More

     
    By Book Marks  July 18, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

    By Emily Buchanan  July 18, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

    By Chloe Michelle Howarth  July 18, 2025
    Queer Literature

    The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

    By Lida Maxwell  July 18, 2025
    Memoir

    Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

    By Sahar Delijani  July 17, 2025
    Money

    Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

    By Ben Brooks  July 17, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 17, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 17, 2025
    Profiles

    Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

    By Mickie Meinhardt  July 16, 2025
    Craft and Advice

    On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

    Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 18, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones’s The Trouble of Color

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 16, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

    By Ezra Fox  July 14, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

    By Rebecca Chace  July 14, 2025
    Relationships

    What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

    Hattie Williams on Novels by Kirsten Reed, Coco Mellors, Jenny Erpenbeck, and More

    By Hattie Williams  July 14, 2025
    Forgotten Classics

    The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

    By Deborah Williams  July 14, 2025
    On Reading

    Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth…) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

    By Kathy Wang  July 14, 2025
    First Draft

    Robert Macfarlane on Crossing the Terrain

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 14, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jeff Hiller on The Celebrity Memoir

    From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Memoir Nation   July 14, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    It’s Anticipation Season (Again) on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   July 11, 2025
    On Race

    Other Worlds, Other Futures: On Black Panther and the Dream of Escapist Emancipation

    By Ekow Eshun  July 11, 2025
    Writing Advice

    Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

    By Sam Weller  July 11, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

    In Praise of the Excitement of Reinterpretation

    By Irenosen Okojie  July 11, 2025
    Craft

    Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 11, 2025
    African Literature

    War, Confession, Political Reimagining: Five Essential Books by Kenyan Authors

    By Wanjeri Gakuru  July 11, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

    By Issa Quincy  July 16, 2025
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